Two killers at large after escaping open prisons, confirms Shatter

Alan Shatter has confirmed there are two other prisoners in homicide related cases that remain at large after walking free from “open prisons”.

The justice minister said that along with Donegal man, Martin McDermott, 26, there were two other prisoners serving sentences for homicide offences who were unlawfully at large.

Last month, McDermott — who was serving a seven-year sentence for the manslaughter of Garda Gary McLaughlin — walked free from a low-security facility, Loughan prison in Co Cavan.